Global Patent Index - EP 1423674 B1

EP 1423674 B1 20120418 - APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING RESIDUAL SEAL FORCE OF SEALED CONTAINERS

Title (en)

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING RESIDUAL SEAL FORCE OF SEALED CONTAINERS

Title (de)

VORRICHTUNG UND VERFAHREN ZUR BESTIMMUNG DER RESTDICHTKRAFT ABGEDICHTETER BEHÄLTER

Title (fr)

APPAREIL ET PROCEDE DE DETERMINATION DE LA FORCE DE SCELLEMENT RESIDUELLE DE CONTENANTS HERMETIQUEMENT FERMES

Publication

EP 1423674 B1 20120418 (EN)

Application

EP 02763514 A 20020813

Priority

  • US 0226949 W 20020813
  • US 94929701 A 20010907

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO03031944A1] An apparatus and method for testing the residual seal force of the closure (2) of a container (4), particularly a container for parenteral pharmaceutical products. An automated and instrumented press (26) collects stress and strain data for a closure (2) of a container (4) for parenteral pharmaceutical products. An algorithm is automatically applied to the resulting data set, determining candidate residual seal forces for several data smoothing spans. Confidence levels are determined for each of the candidate residual seal forces. The candidate residual seal force corresponding to the highest confidence level is selected. The process is repeated and the results averaged to determine a final residual seal force.

IPC 8 full level

G01L 5/00 (2006.01); G01N 3/00 (2006.01); G01N 3/02 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP KR US)

G01L 5/0038 (2013.01 - EP US); G01N 3/08 (2013.01 - KR); G01N 2203/0019 (2013.01 - EP US); G01N 2203/0218 (2013.01 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE SK TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 03031944 A1 20030417; AT E554375 T1 20120515; CN 100408995 C 20080806; CN 1564936 A 20050112; EP 1423674 A1 20040602; EP 1423674 A4 20061227; EP 1423674 B1 20120418; HK 1074485 A1 20051111; JP 2005505766 A 20050224; JP 4355208 B2 20091028; KR 100918892 B1 20090923; KR 20040062943 A 20040709; US 2003047005 A1 20030313; US 6615672 B2 20030909

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 0226949 W 20020813; AT 02763514 T 20020813; CN 02819826 A 20020813; EP 02763514 A 20020813; HK 05105925 A 20050712; JP 2003534877 A 20020813; KR 20047003423 A 20020813; US 94929701 A 20010907